Friday, January 21, 2011

Libertarian psychology? This has some points but seems to reinforce the idea that we’re selfish. Arguably though, libertarianism is not an ideology but simply a means; maximise liberty, with only the no-harm principle as its limit, and there would be more prosperity overall and everybody from hardcore social liberals to ‘picket-fence conservatives’ could get along.

To say that we should have civility in our discourse is a code word in the media and in political debate for saying that we should not be exposing our leaders as criminals, or calling for their removal from office. Civility is really the death of politics, which thrives on passion and withers with civility.